law" then it did a hearing and an investigation into finding out what happened, and more importantly, preventing it from happening again. there was a lot of political grandstanding, a lot of republicans cutting off witnesses from the state department, not letting them answer. kind of very lawyerly in a sense. but there were some important things that came out about whether the consulate was adequately protected. eric nordstrom, the top security official in libya spoke very candidly about some of the problems he was having getting the resources he needed to protect u.s. personnel in libya. let's take a listen to what he said. >> one of the frustrating things that i found early on, and as i mentioned in my testimony, i was extremely pleased with the planning to get us into libya. the frustrating thing that i found is once the first teams and the first tdyers started to expire at 60 days, there was a complete and total absence of planning that i saw in terms of what we were supposed to do from that point on. and i requested assets, instead of supporting those assets, i was criticized. an